[License-discuss] License pages cleanup project underway - status update

[Stefano Maffulli]

Hello folks,

It occurred to me that I didn't announce the completion of this project to
this list. Doing it now: the project is done! Thanks Giulia for your time.

To recap what has been done:
- reviewed the archives of all mailing lists archives in our possession
(1999 - 2023) and the public board meeting minutes
- updated the metadata of each license on the website (
https://opensource.org/licenses)
- built a list of licenses that have not been approved or have been
retracted

The website is now up to date, showing all the information like a link to
the first submission to the mailing list for review, the link to the board
approval, name of the steward and link to their version.

Next step will be to expand the list of licenses to include the data about
the non-approved licenses. At the moment this project doesn't have full
specifications written and is not scheduled.

Cheers,
Stef



On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 2:36 AM Giulia Dellanoce <giulia at opensource.org>
wrote:

> Good morning everybody.
>
> This e-mail means to be a quick update on the license-review project I’ve
> been working on in the past few weeks.
>
> It aims to create a systematic and well-ordered database of all the
> licenses that have been submitted to OSI to be approved since its
> foundation, whether approved, withdrawn, voluntarily retired or rejected by
> the board.
>
> I have created two different sheets:
>
>    -
>
>    The first one refers to the approved licenses, and I’ve tried to fill
>    it with as many information as possible about them (es: license stewart,
>    license contact, date of submission, date of approval…)
>    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7u57yT2QcsL6nwuOExKCQd1MUOm1LL35Q7wEAsxFzM/edit#gid=0
>    ;
>    -
>
>    The second one refers to all other licenses, and for each one I’ve
>    noted the date of submission, the license contact, and whether it had been
>    approved, withdrawn or rejected
>    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G7u57yT2QcsL6nwuOExKCQd1MUOm1LL35Q7wEAsxFzM/edit#gid=1186567974
>    .
>
> To fulfill the mentioned sheets, I have gone through the public license
> review mailing list (2008 - 2023)
> https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/,
> the license discuss mailing list (1999 - 2007)
> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/,
> the public board meeting minutes (2005 - 2023)
> https://opensource.org/wp-admin/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=meeting-minutes&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&action2=-1
> and
> https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI%20Board%20of%20Directors/Board%20minutes/
> .
>
>
>
> Unfortunately I am finding some difficulties in finishing this phase of
> the project: I need to somehow find the minutes of board meetings that
> occurred before 2005, and the list of pre-approved licenses (I found out in
> the license discussion mailing list that some licenses were approved when
> OSI was first founded).
>
> I am going to double-check the sheet containing the approved licenses,
> with Stefano’s approval and under his supervision, in order to be able to
> publish all the data I’ve collected on the OSI website. Meanwhile, if any
> of you has some information regarding the above mentioned problem, I would
> really appreciate it if they could share it with me.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Giulia
>
>
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